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Why are we like this?
Artiste:
Merci beaucoup Fiona!! (optom)
I will tell mother that and my great lady neighbour!! But why do they have to wait for such an operation?? - ??
Pourquoi?
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Back to: Why are we like this ?? Why indeed?? I just just reading a note from a lady she posted to me last year. She wondered why too??
She says:
Yes, I think some gay men don't accept their homosexuality!
Fiona, more later.
For now, that is interesting what she says?
Au revoir,
hugs!
Brown Eyes:
After over three years of the Brokie experience, it seems worthwhile to reconsider this now age-old question.
:)
So, I'll take a serious stab at the question. The more I think about it, the more I think BBM touched those of us who are hardcore Brokies in some way that resonates or resonated with some serious issue that we needed to or still need to resolve in our own lives. I don't think it is always an absolutely direct relationship to the literal themes or storylines with in the movie/story. It seems to me that many serious Brokies have been or still are looking for some kind of major change or adjustment in their own lives. The way BBM spoke to or continues to speak to that need for change or reevaluation is certainly completely unique for everyone who has experienced this.
Monika:
--- Quote from: atz75 on March 20, 2009, 09:34:09 pm ---After over three years of the Brokie experience, it seems worthwhile to reconsider this now age-old question.
:)
So, I'll take a serious stab at the question. The more I think about it, the more I think BBM touched those of us who are hardcore Brokies in some way that resonates or resonated with some serious issue that we needed to or still need to resolve in our own lives. I don't think it is always an absolutely direct relationship to the literal themes or storylines with in the movie/story. It seems to me that many serious Brokies have been or still are looking for some kind of major change or adjustment in their own lives. The way BBM spoke to or continues to speak to that need for change or reevaluation is certainly completely unique for everyone who has experienced this.
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Interesting thread.
I agree, Amanda. I think this is why fiction is such a big part of our lives. Somehow fiction often helps us to look at our own lives and if not change things, at least re-evaluate some aspects of it. ¨
I don´t know quite yet what it is about BBM that I respond to so much, but I´ll keep on looking. I have been looking for a little over a year now and I´ll figure it out someday, I bet.
Katie77:
I think when this question was first asked, it was in the beginning of most our experience of Brokeback Mountain.
How many of us thought we were a little bit crazy for going so over the top over a movie? How many of us, thought we were the only ones going through it, until we found sites like Bettermost? How many of us thought it was just a phase we were going through and we would get over it?
How many of us asked......"Why are we like this?"
Well, I guess after three years, most of us have stopped asking. We just ACCEPT that we are spirtually connected to the movie, to the characters, to the story. We dont feel the need to justify it anymore, nor the need to hide it from our family and friends, because now they too, accept it.
It is as much a part of us, as getting up in the morning, and going to bed at night, its just there.
We continue to go about our normal life, going to work, mixing with family, socializing with friends, we know, and they know that we are Brokeback Mountain obsessed, that is part of our makeup and our character now, and I have no doubt that it will be, for the rest of our lives.
Brown Eyes:
Heya Buffy and Katie! :) I agree with what both of you said here.
--- Quote from: Katie77 on March 21, 2009, 05:14:25 am ---Well, I guess after three years, most of us have stopped asking. We just ACCEPT that we are spirtually connected to the movie, to the characters, to the story. We dont feel the need to justify it anymore, nor the need to hide it from our family and friends, because now they too, accept it.
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Although, for me, the extent of my Brokie-ness is still pretty much secret to most of my family, friends and colleagues. Most of them know that I like the movie, but none of them (that I know of) are aware of the Brokie events I've participated in or the level of my daily activity at BetterMost and thinking about Brokeback related things. I still think that most of the folks in my normal, daily life wouldn't understand at all.
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